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100 1  Mac Cumhaill, Clare,|eauthor. 
245 10 Metaphysical animals :|bhow four women brought philosophy 
       back to life /|cClare Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman. 
250    First American edition. 
264  1 New York :|bDoubleday,|c[2022] 
264  4 |c©2022 
300    xv, 398 pages :|billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-374) and 
       index. 
505 0  Prologue: Mr Truman's degree, Oxford, May 1956 -- On 
       probation, Oxford, October 1938-September 1939 -- Learning
       in wartime, Oxford, September 1939-June 1942 -- Disorder 
       and hardship, Cambridge & London, June 1942-August 1945 --
       Park Town, Oxford, Brussels, Graz, Cambridge & Chiswick, 
       September 1945-August 1947 -- A joint 'No!', Oxford & 
       Cambridge, October 1947-July 1948 -- Back to life, Oxford,
       Cambridge, Dublin & Vienna, October 1948-January 1951 -- 
       Metaphysical animals, Newcastle & Oxford, May 1950-
       February 1955 -- Epilogue: Mr Truman's degree, again, 
       Oxford, May 1956 -- Afterwards. 
520    "A vibrant portrait of four college friends--Iris Murdoch,
       Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley--who 
       formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men 
       were away fighting World War II.  The history of European 
       philosophy is usually constructed from the work of men. In
       Metaphysical Animals, a pioneering group biography, Clare 
       Mac Cumhaill and Rachael Wiseman offer a compelling 
       alternative. In the mid-twentieth century Elizabeth 
       Anscombe, Mary Midgley, Philippa Foot, and Iris Murdoch 
       were philosophy students at Oxford when most male 
       undergraduates and many tutors were conscripted away to 
       fight in the Second World War. Together, these young women,
       all friends, developed a philosophy that could respond to 
       the war's darkest revelations. Neither the great 
       Enlightenment thinkers of the past, the logical innovators
       of the early twentieth century, or the new Existentialist 
       philosophy trickling across the Channel, could make sense 
       of this new human reality of limitless depravity and 
       destructive power, the women felt. Their answer was to 
       bring philosophy back to life. We are metaphysical animals,
       they realized, creatures that can question their very 
       being. Who am I? What is freedom? What is human goodness? 
       The answers we give, they believed, shape what we will 
       become."--|cAmazon. 
600 10 Murdoch, Iris|xFriends and associates. 
600 10 Foot, Philippa|xFriends and associates. 
600 10 Anscombe, G. E. M.|q(Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret)|xFriends
       and associates. 
600 10 Midgley, Mary,|d1919-2018|xFriends and associates. 
650  0 Women philosophers|zEngland|vBiography. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
700 1  Wiseman, Rachael,|eauthor. 
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